Ootinny, consider that the problem may lie with your dryer, which is shrinking your clothing excessively.
Seriously though, when I was 11 and very fat, I lost 70 pounds, going from a roundish 180 to 110, by borrowing my dear aunt’s weight watchers diet and adhering to it for a few months. Nobody ever told me I was allowed to cheat.
Two winters ago, I joined Weight Watchers for real and lost 20 pounds in 4 months, and kept about 75% of it off since then.